Any optimization in the HBO series Lovecraft Country without doubt, recognize Aunjanue Ellis, who plays the series of Hippolyta Freeman, a family-oriented entrepreneur with a penchant for the observation of the stars and a hunger for adventure. In a show full of monsters, mythical and human, Hippolyta serves as the very human constant; that is to say, until she gets involved in the mess as well. But Hippolyta is as bold and tenacious as a lot of the characters Ellis has played in the past, and have not been much. At 51 years of age, the actress made her debut as an actor on the stage, in 1995, and she has not stopped dazzling us ever since!
Your credits are a collection of the beloved characters on both the big and small screen, as her role as the strong, but fair to Miranda Shaw in the ABC thriller series Quantico, its performance in The Book of the Blackbased on the successful novel by Lawrence Hill, and his iconic portrait of Sistah Girl next to Eddie Murphy in the action comedy film Undercover Brother. More recently, Ellis garnered critical acclaim, universal admiration, and an Emmy Award for outstanding lead actress in a limited series for his performance in Ava DuVernay’s mini-series from Netflix When They See Us. Scroll ahead for a look at some of Ellis’s most popular roles over the past 20 years.
